The scarlet ibis and Doodle have traveled a long way just to perish. In the beginning of the story, Doodle is expected to die and pushes himself to his breaking point, but surprises everyone. The narrator describes Doodle’s progress, “I helped Doodle up, and when he was standing alone I let them look. There wasn’t a sound as Doodle walked slowly across the room and sat down at his place at the table,” (Hurst ll. 172-174). When Doodle was first born, he wasn’t expected to live, but once he …show more content…
Doodle had lived a very successful life compared to how he was expected to live. The narrator describes his brother’s death by comparing him to the scarlet ibis, “He had been bleeding from the mouth, and his neck and the front of his shirt were stained a brilliant red. ‘Doodle! Doodle!’ I cried, shaking him, but there was no answer but the ropy rain,” (Hurst ll. 383-386). Doodle and the bird both died in a similar environment and the red on Doodle and the scarlet ibis symbolizes the tragedy that they each experienced. As a result of facing the ‘storms’ in their lives, they both learned to overcome it and move on but they weren’t strong enough to accomplish those